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The Withlacoochee airfield was used by the CWS Unit as a landing strip for the planes used in the field trials at Withlacoochee Bombing & Gunnery Range. Several military herbicides for defoliation and crop destruction were tested at the airfield. After World War II ended, the airstrip was abandoned and apparently has not been used ever since.
This area is known historically as the Cove of the Withlacoochee. Tsala Apopka Lake is composed of a number of lakes, swamps and marshes interspersed with islands, with a total open water surface area of about 19,111 acres (77.34 km 2 ).
It was a rail stop by the Withlacoochee River just north of where the I-75 bridge over Croom-Rital Road and Withlacoochee State Trail is today. The Croom Tract is part of the Withlacoochee State Forest, and is located just north of another ghost town called Oriole. [3] There is also a 20,000 acre Croom Wildlife Management Area. [4]
"Troupville" (occasionally recorded as Troupeville) is an extinct unincorporated community in Lowndes County, Georgia, United States, near Valdosta.Troupville was a riverboat landing near the confluence of the Withlacoochee River and the Little River (Withlacoochee River) at the uppermost navigable point.
Today there are only a few stone ruins at the site of the ephemeral community mentioned by 19th century historians as Lausanne Landing, Lausanne, and Lausanne Township, [c] each signifying a frontier settlement which was a community occupied for most of three decades by a few permanent pioneers, but mainly by transient work crews, either ...
This district includes seventy-six contributing buildings and one contributing site that are located in the linear village of Pottstown Landing. The buildings date from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries and primarily include residential buildings. Also included are a number of contributing outbuildings, a school, and a church.
Withlacoochee State Trail signpost commemorating the Great Train Wreck of 1956 in Pineola. The southern terminus is at U.S. 98/301 south of Trilby.The trail goes 6 miles (9.7 km) north to a crossover of U.S. 98/SR 50, a mile east of I-75 and 40 miles (64 km) north past the Silver Lake Campground in the Withlacoochee State Forest, close to the Withlacoochee River.
The Withlacoochee State Forest is 157,479-acre (637 km 2) in the western central part in the US state of Florida, near Lecanto, Inverness, Floral City, Brooksville, Ridge Manor, and Dade City. The forest was named for the Withlacoochee River , which passes through some of the major tracts within.